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Tuesday, 25 June 2013

I've been getting back into sport of recent, playing a bit of ultimate frisbee and touch rugby at Albert Park (where the grand prix is held). Whilst it has been a bit hard on the body to start with, I realised that once the sweat glands started to work, they cleared the dry skin and it all felt great. In fact, the body is the best it has been since I started.

Good diet and only minimal booze has really helped and I feel like I'm almost at the end of this journey. To be clear, what I mean by this is that I'm through the bad stuff, now I just wait a few more months for the skin to strengthen and the moisture to come back fully.

To everyone following my progress, please encourage others to do the same. I've been given a new lease on life and it really wasn't that hard. I say that in a relative context, meaning of course it was hard, but compared to losing a leg or getting cancer, a year of dry red skin really isn't that bad.

Monday, 17 June 2013

It has been a rocky journey with some ups and downs, but the TSW recovery is going really well as we pass the 9.5 month mark. I'm confident that in the next 6 months I will be back to normal, as I am already living a very normal life and no longer get comments about being red.

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Josh's Story

I'm was 28 years old and had been recommended topical Cortisone by dermatologists since I was 13, because of this my skin became persistently red across my face, arms and neck.

The solution is to cut the cortisone completely, but this process takes between 9 months to 4 years to recover from and came with many horrific side affects.

The video above explains exactly what has caused the red skin, swelling and many other terrible symptoms that I've battled for the last 10 years. You can view all the posts on the blog by using the blog archive further down the page.